Longing For God

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'Deep wells of living water dug by our ancestors have been filled with religious rubble and trash by American consumer spirituality. Like Isaac, digging again the wells of his father that the Philistines stopped up, Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe have cleaned out these deep sources of Christian nurture and formation for us. It turns out that there are wells all over the place. Use this book for your bucket.' -- Eugene H. Peterson, translator of THE MESSAGE 'This is a feast for the mind and the soul. This is the best and richest of Christian thinking and soul-making made accessible to everybody. It would be very hard to read this without having your heart grow.' -- John Ortberg, author and pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church 'Reading LONGING FOR GOD is like stepping into an unfamiliar room and finding a wonderful group of vital and brilliant brothers and sisters in the way of Christ, reaching out to us from across the ages and from all kinds of personal characteristics and circumstances. We need to reach back and let them help us to know the fullness of life in the kingdom of God for who and where we are now. The spiritual impoverishment so widespread today among Christians is largely due to disconnection from "the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all." The authors have opened doors into "the unsearchable riches of Christ." Let's go in.' -- Dallas Willard, author of THE DIVINE CONSPIRACY 'This marvelous source book by Foster and Beebe invites us to a pilgrimage toward God. It takes us deeply and slowly into the old trusts of our fathers and mothers in faith. The book will be a valuable detailed reminder that the journey is not an easy one, and that we are not the first ones who have walked that way. The book meditates on the old habits whereby one may break from the present rush in order to be refreshed and transformed by a holiness that is beyond every quick fix and every surface offer.' -- Walter Brueggemann, author of THE PROPHETIC IMAGINATION '...tells the stories of different individuals over the centuries who have explored ways of cultivating their own inner life... it will give you a fascinating insight into much of Christian history' -- Christianity magazine 20090701